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Location
A range of low hills running approximately one hundred miles north and east from Fornost
Race
Men
Division
Dúnedain
Settlements
Fornost Erain, at the southern tip of the Downs
Meaning
Simply a range of downs in the north of Middle-earth

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  • Updated 10 March 2007
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North Downs

The hills above Fornost

A range of hills in the north of Middle-earth, at the south end of which lay Fornost Erain, ancient city of the Dúnedain.


See also...

Angmar, Kingdoms of the Dúnedain, Mount Gram, Norbury of the Kings

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